Brit Vote 2010 – Everyone Lost, Except the Greens
Just before 5 pm British Summer Time today, the last seat to be decided in the General Election was announced. The Conservatives held West Devon and Torridge, giving them 306 seats. Labour has 258,...
View ArticleBREAKING: BROWN QUITS, CAMERON TO BE PM
Gordon Brown has just said he's resigning as Prime Minister. David Cameron will be PM after a quick visit to the Palace to see the Queen. After several days’ of negotiating, the deal is done. The...
View ArticleBrit Vote 2010 – Behind the Teal Door
It’s been quite a week in British politics. Last Wednesday, we were all wondering if the Labour Party would have enough popular votes to finish second and whether the Tories would scrape by to secure a...
View ArticleBrit Vote 2010 – Lessons Learned
When I started this series, I had hoped to use the British general election to extract some lessons for us radical, progressive Americans. Different electoral systems and all that notwithstanding, I...
View ArticleSomebody Got Murdered
I guess my green credentials are pretty second rate. Don’t get me wrong; I care about the petrocano erupting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. I feel for the boat captains and crews who are facing...
View ArticleAmerica's New "National Security Strategy" Breaks with Past
The first duty of any sovereign political entity is the protection of its citizens from external attack. To articulate how it does that, the US government produces every so often a "National Security...
View ArticleBREAKING -- BP Will Suspend Dividend Says BBC
I took a break from World Cup Soccer (Bafana Bafana!) long enough to run across a BBC report that the dividend payment BP is due to make to its shareholders around June 26 is going to be suspended. On...
View ArticleWhat Part of C + I + G + X − M = Y Don’t You Get?!?!?
I realize that not everybody took Econ 101. And most of the people on the right who did, forgot everything in the Samuelson text. But here’s the deal; there are five (count ‘em – five) factors that...
View ArticleThe Parable of the Two Brothers
With apologies to Jesus of Nazareth (who deserves better followers than he seems to have attracted over the years), I offer a parable. Once, there were two brothers who were fishermen. They worked...
View ArticleAnd We’re Running out of Helium
It’s one of those days where I am completely disgusted by the inability of America to walk and chew gum at the same time. People are annoyed that a mosque might be built a block from New York Dolls (a...
View ArticleBREAKING: DADT Filibuster Holds
Well, folks, DADT lives to oppress another day. The vote to break the filibuster failed to get the 60 votes needed. MSNBC reports "Two Arkansas Democrats, Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln, voted...
View ArticleAux Armes, Grognards, Aux Armes!!!
My French isn’t all that great, but the title means "To Arms, Grumblers, To Arms!!!" Grumblers??? Yes, grumblers. Grognards is the nickname cum official term for Napoleon’s Old Guard. These were...
View ArticleBrit Vote 2010 – Everyone Lost, Except the Greens
Just before 5 pm British Summer Time today, the last seat to be decided in the General Election was announced. The Conservatives held West Devon and Torridge, giving them 306 seats. Labour has 258,...
View ArticleBREAKING: BROWN QUITS, CAMERON TO BE PM
Gordon Brown has just said he's resigning as Prime Minister. David Cameron will be PM after a quick visit to the Palace to see the Queen. After several days’ of negotiating, the deal is done. The...
View ArticleBrit Vote 2010 – Behind the Teal Door
It’s been quite a week in British politics. Last Wednesday, we were all wondering if the Labour Party would have enough popular votes to finish second and whether the Tories would scrape by to secure a...
View ArticleBrit Vote 2010 – Lessons Learned
When I started this series, I had hoped to use the British general election to extract some lessons for us radical, progressive Americans. Different electoral systems and all that notwithstanding, I...
View ArticleSomebody Got Murdered
I guess my green credentials are pretty second rate. Don’t get me wrong; I care about the petrocano erupting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. I feel for the boat captains and crews who are facing...
View ArticleAmerica's New "National Security Strategy" Breaks with Past
The first duty of any sovereign political entity is the protection of its citizens from external attack. To articulate how it does that, the US government produces every so often a "National Security...
View ArticleBREAKING -- BP Will Suspend Dividend Says BBC
I took a break from World Cup Soccer (Bafana Bafana!) long enough to run across a BBC report that the dividend payment BP is due to make to its shareholders around June 26 is going to be suspended. On...
View ArticleWhat Part of C + I + G + X − M = Y Don’t You Get?!?!?
I realize that not everybody took Econ 101. And most of the people on the right who did, forgot everything in the Samuelson text. But here’s the deal; there are five (count ‘em – five) factors that...
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